Writing, Literature & Publishing

Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty

Tamera Marko
Lecturer (2008)
B.S., Pepperdine University; M.A., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Tamera Marko specializes in multi-lingual, multi-media community literacy projects in the Americas (Spanish, Portuguese, Maya, Quechua, English). She channels her work as a historian of Latin America and her 14 years of teaching writing to combine genres of new media, composition and traditional historical memory to research and publish in "the approach and form called for by each project." Marko's several academic and media publications and translations explore relationships between youth movements and nation-building projects in post-abolition and peace process contexts. Her work has also debuted in film festivals, theaters and cafés in Medellín, Rio de Janeiro, Durham, and Boston. While a Faculty Fellow at Duke University, Marko co-founded DukeEngage Colombia, which she still directs. In a collaboration between Emerson College, MIT, Duke University, and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín, this project is called "Medellín: la violencia is not the whole story . . ." http://rw121emersonmedellin.blogspot.com

Her poetry, in a publication-ready collection entitled Coming to Consciousness: In Brazil my name is a fruit, explores the power and pitfalls of white privilege, gender, and interracial relations. Before academia, she worked as a journalist covering human rights in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States.


Full Time Faculty

Daniel Tobin, Chair and Professor

Lisa Diercks, Graduate Program Director for the M.A. Program and Associate Professor

Frederick Reiken, Graduate Program Director for the M.F.A. Program and Associate Professor

Jonathan Aaron, Associate Professor

William Beuttler, Publisher/Writer-In-Residence

Bernard Brooks, Writer-In-Residence

Christine Casson, Writer-in-Residence

Yu-jin Chang, Assistant Professor

William Donoghue, Associate Chair and Associate Professor

David Emblidge, Associate Professor

Robin Riley Fast, Associate Professor

Maria Flook, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

Flora Gonzalez, Professor
On Leave

Lise Haines, Writer-in-Residence

DeWitt Henry, Professor

Steven Himmer, Lecturer

Richard Hoffman, Writer-in-Residence

Roy Kamada, Assistant Professor
On Leave

Maria Koundoura, Associate Professor

Margot Livesey, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

Gian Lombardo, Publisher-in-Residence

Tamera Marko, Lecturer


Megan Marshall, Assistant Professor
On Leave

Gail Mazur, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

Kimberly McLarin, Writer-in-Residence

Pablo Medina, Professor

William Orem, Writer-In-Residence

Pamela Painter, Professor

Jon Papernick, Writer-In-Residence

Elizabeth Parfitt, Lecturer

Ladette Randolph, Director & Editor-In-Chief of Ploughshares and Distinguished Publisher-In-Residence

John Rodzvilla, Electronic Publisher-In-Residence

Murray Schwartz, Professor

Jeffrey Seglin, Associate Professor

John Skoyles, Professor

Tracy Strauss, Lecturer

Jessica Treadway, Associate Professor

John Trimbur, Director of the First Year Writing Program and Professor

Wendy Walters, Associate Professor

Daniel Weaver, Publisher/Editor-In-Residence

Douglas Whynott, Associate Professor

Steve Yarbrough, Professor

Mako Yoshikawa, Assistant Professor
On Leave

Part Time Faculty
Michelle Abadia
Morgan Baker
John Barnard
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
Michael Bent
Zoe Bercovici
MaryEllen Beveridge
Gaynor Blandford
Claire Blechman
Aaron Block
Rachael Bork
Leslie Brokaw
Kara Brown
James Byrne
Delia Cabe
Kelly Caiazzo
Christina Carlson
Kathleen Carr
Anne Champion
Kirstin Chen
Cassie Condrey
Brian Cronin
Shannon Derby
Robert Dulgarian
Karen English
Benjamin Folk
Fred Francis
Ethan Gilsdorf
Bryan Godfrey
Kathleen Gonso
Michelle Graham
Sarah Green
Melissa Gruntkosky
Thomas Hallock
Johannah Haney
Michael Heppner
Ellen Howards
Julie Humphreys
Pierre Hurel
Joseph Hurka
Beth Ineson
Jonathan Irwin
Alden Jones
Christopher Keane
Joseph Kmiecik
Kristina Kopic
Mary Kovaleski
Simon Kress
Christopher LaCroix
Andrew Ladd
Sean Lanigan
Raymond Liddell
Karen Lindsey
James McCormack
Thomas McNeely
Kevin Miller
Risa Miller
Wendy Mnookin
Margaret Monahan-Pashall
Michelle Morgan
Edward Moss
Greg Nichols
Craig Panzer
Carol Parikh
Curtis Perdue
Kathleen Preston
Charles Reynolds
Michael Rosovsky
Anna Ross
Linwood Rumney
Rebecca Saraceno
Steven Schirra
Catherine Ennis Sears
Peter Shippy
Diana Smith
Emily Thomas
Stephanie Torta
Susan Vinovrski
Meta Wagner
Lissa Warren
Anne Wheeler
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